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    The real sadness is of course: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/15/an-afghan-woman-in-kabul-now-i-have-to-burn-everything-i-achieved https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-women-kabul-f6fa72e3289f7d6c33ddf84d5a7c4bc2 Afghanistan represents a giant failure in American and NATO foreign policy, lack of cultural understanding, lack of proper support to build institutions that Afghani people could trust, and lack of transparency throughout the 42 years (the Soviet-Afghan war started in 1979) of American involvement in Afghanistan (before then, but that was really the first significant investment for the Americans - prior assistance projects were infrastructure or technical assistance). I know this is the America thread, but since it's been brought up here, with respect to China's potential entry (or becoming more prominent, as it were), it should be noted of course that China has been involved in Afghan affairs for a long time, and their relations with Afghanistan have been complex. https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/184324/PISM Strategic File no 22 (58).pdf sharma2010 (Sino-Afghan).pdf
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    Most recent UNODC report: https://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/20210503_Executive_summary_Opium_Survey_2020_SMALL.pdf
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    Most of your Fentanyl comes from Mexico now.
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    I’d like to congratulate the Brentford fans for absolutely rinsing both arsenal and Tottenham in one chant https://streamable.com/t9yr31
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    Bada bing bada boom(er)!
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    hyper cum This is real knowledge.
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    Reality TV before it was scripted? Anyways, Bob Sagat getting ripped to shreds by Norm MacDonald
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    band?
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    If you think this forum is a circle jerk you should hang out with k-pop “stans”. Am I using the term right? Keep going. At least one boomer is interested
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    A bold claim. Enjoying it so far on first run through.
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    This guy is a model a lot of us should aspire to: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/serbian-cave-hermit-gets-covid-19-vaccine-urges-others-to-follow
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    top lel.
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    Not at all. In ambiguous situations, there is a need for tolerance. The process for extradition is not particularly ambiguous. The interpretation by the judge may be. More blather in the spoiler, but extradition requests are not undertaken lightly. It's not like driving 5km/hr over the speed limit.
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    ironiclaatist. I totally read that in Lindsey Graham's voice. Sorry.
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    They wilding down in Flo-rida: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/08/13/4-broward-educators-with-covid-die-within-2-days-as-school-year-nears/
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    The law ceases to be a law then. That's literally how you get to "laws for thee but not for me". I'm not sure that Saudi Arabia is the model that countries should be striving to emulate. I mean unless you're cool with countries sending out hit squads to murder journalists?
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    Such a weird energy. Scared people who don't know how to cope with the rapid changes and challenges posed by the virus/climate change/et al. Nowhere to run to, so the fight instinct kicks in. This is not just in America, but Americans seem to be the loudest/dumbest about it (with apologies to the French).
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    Who knows about Guantanamo, but up here in Canada prisoners get visitation rights. Also, just like the last time China tried this, neither of the people involved are spies. (In that case the only person found guilty was the actual spy, who made a plea deal: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-man-su-bin-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-u-s-military-secrets-1.3505571)
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    They probably did clear some payments from Iran through the US. If 90% of their payments went through the US dollar market. If the law is silly, the way to go about it is by amending the law. I wouldn't say extradition laws are particularly silly either. Still not a diplomat. Diplomatic immunity is clearly defined. Come on man. Really? Really?
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    You've said it many times in various threads. "China is not socialist, they're moving towards it". But here: https://hbr.org/2021/05/americans-dont-know-how-capitalist-china-is And here: https://www.inkstonenews.com/china-translated/china-translated-china-socialist/article/2161467 And here: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/21/millions-of-new-investors-piled-into-chinese-stock-markets-in-2020.html And finally here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-12-04/chinese-communist-party-failed
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    From the second article (which is about TotalEnergie): Wait wut? Where do you get that from? From the part where you said: Meng isn't a diplomat though. Yes I'm aware - there are somewhere around 6,000 diplomats in Ottawa. I almost got sideswiped by one today lol. Generally the diplomat drivers here are nowhere near as aggressive as the Ontarians...
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    Or maybe cause Frank de Wulf is a brilliant producer... Anyways, Canada is rolling out vaccine passports for international travel. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vaccine-passport-1.6137763
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    What kind of strawman argument are you building in your first sentence? If French and German companies were selling to Iran and using the US banking system to clear payments, you can bet the US would investigate. Since they're using the euro marketplace, there is nothing the US can do. Edit: also, clearly some French companies did leave Iran to be replaced by Chinese ones, so it's another unintended consequence of the idiotic sanctions Trump put in place. I'll repeat, I don't agree with sanctions, they are a lazy tool that attempt to replace actual diplomacy. So just to be clear, you're ok with ignoring the rule of law?
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    You have repeatedly said that China is moving toward the achievement of socialism. But the number of billionaires is growing, which is in direct contradiction to your above claim. Also, we're not critiquing a socialist country, as you yourself have said many times that China is not socialist. Finally, I'm not right wing, but you're definitely down with the authoritarian mode.
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    Except they are: https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/china-comrade-billionaires-jack-ma-pledge-loyalty-communist-party/521239/ Now, that academic study they cite has the following in it: So you're thinking, great, Xi is really committed to equality, not abusing the party to gain material wealth etc etc. Meanwhile: Xi Jinping's family amassing wealth: https://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-leaders-family-worth-a-billion-20120629-218qi.html
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